Lighttpd

expected behavior:¶

in lighttpd 1.3.13, when start-stop-daemon is used to stop the lighttpd daemon, all fcgi processes spawned by the configfile method (internal spawning) are also closed as well.

current behavior:¶

in svn 12/05/2005 lighttpd, when start-stop-daemon is used to stop the lighttpd daemon, all internally spawned fcgi processes are left alive, without SIGKILL or other sent to them to ask them to shut down.

result:¶

in machines with limited memory, race condition ensues if fastcgi processes are assumed to be garbage collected and they are not, especially php-fastcgi processes that are allowed 16M of memory each.

-- infowolfe